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I tried to find a better source but there wasn’t one. The article is at the Bulwark which is Bill Kristol’s lib-funded shitrag. I ran out of space in the title. if he does - it will be by the end of the month. See the bit in bold.
Will Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 Next? - thebulwark.com
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act before April ends.
The Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to deploy U.S. armed forces and the national guard against Americans in situations of civil unrest, was last invoked in 1992 to put down the Rodney King riots after the four white police officers who were filmed beating King were acquitted. The nonpartisan Brennan Center has called the law “dangerously overbroad and ripe for abuse.”
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As a reminder, the executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border framed what is happening there as an “invasion” that threatens “America’s sovereignty” as part of its justification for Trump’s decrees.
“This whole strategy from Trump is really based on the demonization of immigrants and the idea we’re being invaded as justification of all executive orders that are trampling on our civil rights and freedoms,” Vanessa Cárdenas, the executive director of immigrant rights group America’s Voice, told The Bulwark. “They’ve been demonizing immigrants for a long time to psychologically prepare people for these actions, and we need to reject and denounce it.”
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Insurrection Act of 1807 - wikipedia.org
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law that empowers the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
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DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES - whitehouse.gov
The White House
January 20, 2025
Looks like all that peaceful protesting really did the trick!
I just saw this Bluesky comment a minute ago. I had to read it twice because I couldn’t figure out what they meant exactly.
Even after reading it twice - like I was cheating on a test - I had to look at the comments because I still wasn’t getting it. I should be better at solving these Bluesky lib puzzles. But I just can’t get used to the particular Bluesky libs who want very badly to punch left proudly and openly. But but some reason (It’s uncouth?) they don’t. Instead they cover their superiority and Olympic medal-class self-righteousness with odd elliptical phrasing. In my entire life - I’ve never seen such stuff anywhere else but at Bluesky.
My wild guess is that OP must have seen a leftist “liberal counterinsurgency” joke and they got real mad about it. Or maybe that didn’t actually happen in reality. It only happened in their own head. But they still got real mad about it anyway.
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I guess somebody did make a “liberal counterinsurgency” joke after all!
A reply
I have no idea what “that account” is.
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Yeesh. Lots of terrible anti-leftist “humor” and “all politics is sexual pathology” in this thread.
I hadn’t heard the term before but “liberal counterinsurgency” seems to mean “libs taking over and neutralizing movements.”
This article uses the 2020 George Floyd protests as an example. Civility libs took over and helped neutralize it.
https://itsgoingdown.org/police-and-liberal-counterinsurgency/
The title is a bit confusing. This is just counterinsurgency. The Republicans and Democrats are the stick and the carrot respectively, the bad cop and the good cop. Republicans are there to shock and awe and crack skulls while Democrats are there to win the hearts and minds while fooling the masses. The George Floyd uprising was ultimately defeated by the carrot, not the stick. Mao said that the insurgent must swim among the people just like fish swim within the sea, so all that “outside agitator” bullshit is a very conscious effort in trying to separate the fish from the sea.
No wonder they are so mad. It’s how things are supposed to be in their minds. How dare anybody not agree or even worse - make fun of that? “Building coalitions” is the lib version of solidarity. Which means we do what 100% of what they they want and we get nothing in return.
I found the recent post @faineg was complaining about.
If only the libs hated the GOP as much. @faineg makes truly sad and pathetic posts. They are an interesting person. Their “in group” way of talking and their “out group” form is - to say the least - entirely different. I feel like I overhead a very private conversation of somebody who is unhinged. I almost feel guilty or something.
Good trouble!
Volley after volley of assault fire erupts. One of Trump’s heavily armed goons goes deadpan and then says “Dead trouble.” After a beat - the rest all laugh and laugh and laugh.
I feel like if “They” don’t fire the first shot, it’ll be over before it begins.
Peaceful protesting and
! Decorum and the status quo prevails!